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The Village
Ivan Bunin
- Alma Books - Alma Classics
- Alma Classics
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Publisher | Alma Books - Alma Classics |
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ISBN | 9781847492838 |
Publication date | November 2012 |
Edition | Paperback |
Dimensions | 240 x 201 mm |
Pages | 200 |
Language(s) | Eng. ed. |
Exhibition | Alma Classics |
Description
Ivan Bunin’s first published work, The Village is a bleak and uncompromising portrayal of rural life in south-west Russia. Set at the time of the 1905 Revolution and centering on episodes in the lives of two peasant brothers – “characters sunk so far below the average of intelligence as to be scarcely human” – it reveals the pettiness, violence and ignorance of life on the land.
At once nostalgic for a bygone more innocent age and foreshadowing the turbulences of the twentieth century, Bunin’s narrative is a triumph of bitter realism, shot through with the author’s classical style and precision of language.